Todays plowing

Anonymous-0 · Jun 2, 2009

Went out today to plow up about a quarter acre of a waterway, that wasn't draining right, so I was usin a little 22 HP gray market kuboter tractor hooked to a one bottom plow, and found somethin out. Did you know that a little 4 wire underground telephone wire could stop the whole works? Oh well, I guess my brother will have to survive on the cell phone for a while. Question I have is shouldn't Phone wire be buried 18 inches deep? This one was only about 6-8" deep.

Anonymous-0 · Jun 2, 2009

At least it wasn't his gas line.....

Anonymous-0 · Jun 2, 2009

I hit a phone line to a new landlords house last year. 1.1 million dollar house and they bury his line 4 inches deep right through the middle of a 80 acre field rather than lay it next to the driveway. It happens!

don t-9n180179 · Jun 2, 2009

When ATT replaced my phone line about 4 years ago, they used a machine that cut a slit in the ground, placed the wire in, and closed the slit.
The slit was maybe 6" deep.

Have fun.....don t. .....

tjdub · Jun 2, 2009

They should be buried 4 ft deep unless the line is Customer Premise Equipment (not owned by the phone company). In that case, the owner can do whatever he wants with the line.

My phone company laid fiber-optic lines through my fields last year. They used a D6 Cat with a huge tine on the back to bury the cable. 200ft into the field they hit a rock so big they broke the tine. Glad it wasn't me.

You say it's a waterway though. Is it possible that erosion is to blame for the shallow depth? That's why you should always get lines marked before digging. Especially yards where landscaping often makes guessing the depth a crap-shoot even when the wires were buried at a standard depth at one time.

Germ · Jun 2, 2009

That's deep for a phone line. We took out a truck line, 30,000 customers with a pulverizer at 3". We had it OUPS come out and mark the line ahead of time. Big cable, probably 3"-4" in diameter. Fellas that came out to fix it told me I was going to have to pay. When they found out how shallow it was, they changed their tune. Took em a long time to splice all those wires. I wish I had pictures. When they were done, the repair boot sat about 3" above grade.

Anonymous-0 · Jun 2, 2009

Well, I just got off the phone with customer disservice, at the phone co, you know the one that if you look at the tallest point on the VERge of the horIZON, you can see just when they'll get to the repair. They said June 21 is the day it'll get fixed.( the same way they fixed it last time, poorly) I guess I'll go over there with my neighbor, the electrician, and fix it the right way!

John - OH · Jun 2, 2009

Sounds pretty deep to me. I do landscape construction and you would be amazed at the amount of lines that are buried maybe 2 inches deep. We always call for utility markings but sometimes they are so so. It"s to the point I carry a splice kit for phone and cable wires in the truck and usually fix them myself if they get damaged.

Hobo,NC · Jun 2, 2009

Rather look for are fix a line 6/12" deep than look for are fix one 30" deep,,, BTDT,,, I will take the 6 to 12" deep line

A few years ago looked for a line 30" deep,,, dug a hole 24" deep 10' long,,, the phone man dug the last 6" deep about a foot long

I would not dig till it was located,,, so we found it,,, 6 months later they had a problem and ran a new line,,, my guess 6 to 12" deep

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